More Squat Progress
Before this workout, I had a weird pain in the right side of my chest. I couldn’t figure out if it was heartburn, a pulled muscle, or something else. It got more intense if I took a deep breath. I found that if I did belly breaths though, it was manageable. So I figured I would go the gym anyway, try some squats and see what happened.
Box Squats: 185: 4, 5, 5, 5, 5
Front Squats: 135: 5, 5, 5
As you can see, the squats ended up going very well. I did some gradual warmup sets without the box just to see if I’d be able to keep my breathing under control and not make the chest pain worse. My final warmup set was with 155 lb. I went nice and deep, and everything seemed to be okay, so I put the full weight on and got the box out for my working sets.
I wanted 5 on the first set, but I was still nervous about the chest thing, so I wasn’t quite ready in my head yet, and only got out 4 reps. After that though, once I saw there was nothing to worry about, I got out another 4 sets of 5 reps each. So I’d say in the end it turned out to be my best squat workout ever 
I followed that up with some front squats, but we were running out of time (got there really late,) so I was only able to fit in 3 sets. Didn’t have time for any leg curls either.
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